Thanks. This is new to me - I see that debian/rules sets that as the default.
Note that vipw will not use sensible-editor, or ask you what you want for it, if VISUAL or EDITOR is set in your environment. Would you mind adding that to your manpage patch? thanks, -serge On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 12:07:50AM +0000, Toni via Pkg-shadow-devel wrote: > Package: passwd > Version: 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > > Hi, > > the 'vipw' program uses a file that isn't documented. The attached patch > should fill this gap, although I haven't tried to build the package with > it. > > > Enjoy, > Toni > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 12.5 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US:en > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages passwd depends on: > ii libaudit1 1:3.0.9-1 > ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4 > ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.33-2 > ii libpam-modules 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 > ii libpam0g 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 > ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b6 > ii libsemanage2 3.4-1+b5 > > Versions of packages passwd recommends: > ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1 > > passwd suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > diff --git a/man/vipw.8.xml b/man/vipw.8.xml > index 4caddcb..9775af7 100644 > --- a/man/vipw.8.xml > +++ b/man/vipw.8.xml > @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ > <citerefentry><refentrytitle>vi</refentrytitle> > <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. > </para> > + <para> > + On the first run, this program asks you for an editor and stores your > + selection in ~/.selected_editor. If the editor mentioned therein does > + not exist on your system, the program will fall back to using 'nano'. > + </para> > </refsect1> > > <refsect1 id='options'> > @@ -210,6 +215,9 @@ > <citerefentry> > <refentrytitle>gshadow</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum> > </citerefentry> > + <citerefentry> > + > <refentrytitle>~/.selected_editor</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum> > + </citerefentry> > <citerefentry condition="tcb"> > <refentrytitle>login.defs</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum> > </citerefentry>, > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-shadow-devel mailing list > pkg-shadow-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-shadow-devel
